RE: [MacPerl] I am stumped! - TZ

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

<x-flowed>At 22:39 -0500 2/23/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>I am looking for the Time Zone Name, i.e. EST, CST, or even when Daylight is
>>active EDT, CDT.
>
> Well, you can do that yourself with a table of the timezones mapped to
> offsets.  There is also a Time::Zone module on CPAN that seems to work.

Well, no.  In summer, -0700 could be PDT or MST (Arizona, except the 
Navajos but including the Hopis <who are surrounded by the Navajos>). 
Similar problems in Indiana, etc.  To tell the difference, one would 
need to extract the DST flag from the location record.  [One or both 
of the nations mentioned may have changed in the past few years.]

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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